The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-07-14

the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest Tele-
graphic Reports on Subjects
Of Interest.
| The queen reviewed $4,000 soldiers at
Aldershot last Saturday.
| The Rev. Maurice Bourke, of Cheyenne,
has been appointed bishop of Wyoming.
All men on furlough in southern Rus
sia have been ordered to rejoin their
colors.
| The Italian government is preparing
measure to exclude foreigners from civil
service examinations.
The Utah &-Northern will change from
narrow to broad gauge between the Goth
and 26th of this month.
The total fire loss for the month OF
June was 1O,183, 100, the largest for any
month of June since 1877.
A disease supposed to be diptheria is
raging with terrible violence on Cock
burn Island in Lake Huron.
The courts of California have dismiss
ed the suit of the Chemcical Bank, of New
York, against VIM. Kissane.
In attempting to swim across Niagara
river last week Richard Cronan was
caught in the whirlpool rapids and
drowned.
After a medical examination, the man
who attempted the life of ex-Marshal
Bazine, has been declared insane and his
trial postponed.
The great anarchy trial, at Berlin, in
volving the socialists of Hamburg, Berlin
and Leipsic will begin here the 18th inst.
before the imperial tribunal
Canadian cholera is more prevalent
this season than for many years. Child
dren are dying of cholera infantum in
! Montreal at an alarming rate.
Hope Of finding the entombed miners
at the Con. CaL-Va. alive is now aban-
doned but work for the recovery Of the
bodies is being pushed with vigor.
The Crimes bill passed the third read
ing in the Commons last week by vote
of $40 to 262. The announcement was re-
ceived with cheers and counter cheers.
The freedom of the city of Edinburgh
Scotland, has been conferred upon An
drew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania, in recog-
milton of his gift of library to the town.
A young man, 10 years of age, named
George Abicus, was drowned in Hang
mans creek, near Spokane Falls, last Fri
day, while bathing. The body was recov-
cred.
The United States consul at Palermo
telegraphed the department of state that
the deaths which occurred there last
week are believed to have been caused by
cholera.
De Lesseps has issued a circular an
nouncing the second issue of bonds of the
Panama canal amounting to 2OO,OOO,OO(
francs, although 100,000,O00 francs are
still On hand.
Last Thursday night in opposition tt
a third reading OF the Crimes bill Glad
stone made before the House of Com
mons one of those eloquent arguments
for which he is famous.
Frank Hugh O'Donnen has begun {
libel suit against the London Times fol
damages, because of the charges agains'
him by that journal in it's articles OF
sParnellism and Crime"
The Chinese in the Peninsular of Core'
are demanding that intercourse with for
eign nations be abandoned and western
innovations, including the telephone
electric light and the study of English b
abolished.
Thomas Durand, aged 70 years, bette
known as Japanese Tommy, was burie'
> on Tuesday in Evergreen Cemetery, New
York. He was a dwarf two feet in heigh!
and has been on exhibition before all tn
crowned heads in Europe.
Schnaebel, whose arrest by the Ger
man police came near being casus bell
between France and Germany, has beel
appointed to higher position at Leo1
He wanted to be again placed on th
frontier, but the government refused.
The President has written a letter t
st. Louis declining the invitation to visi
the town, giving as his reasons the al
sence of any desire on his part to Great
discord among the members of the G.
r. and in closing he says he hopes thei
encampment and reunion will be as sue
cessful as possible. The citizens of ST